[R-390] cy-979 cabinets

[Jerry K]

If my endorsement is worth anything, I bought two of Mac's original 
batch of CY-979 cabinets Mac mentioned several years back (in addition 
to a fine Harris receiver from him) and was VERY happy with everything 
he sold me, and especially with effort he cheerfully expended in order 
to get them to me. I don't need another cabinet at this point, since I'm 
down to only one 390A receiver at the moment, but in case you're new on 
the list and don't know Mac's reputation, I can personally vouch for his 
integrity. He's very well known across the country, and he's a straight 
shooting Old Timer who will treat you right.

And Hi Mac, long time no see on here!

73, Jerry  W5KP   Mustang, OK  (Veteran R-390 list member from way back 
in the early Chuck Rippel days)



On 12/26/2010 3:34 PM, libbysales wrote:
> Readers:  several years ago I had found and offered a small sum of original cabinets, that were for the large part still wrapped in those large brown sealed bags, these were made in the 1989-1992 ear it seemed ..  those were sold and I thought that was the end of them forever..
>
> But along the way I discovered several things, these came to me direct from a DRMO facility, included in some of the pacing materials were original inspection and DD-250 reports, these showed who had built the cabinets and when they were accepted by the Govt buying activity.  I didn't give it a lot of thought at the time,  but did keep the info, later I started making calls or trying to find these companies, of the 3 firms one is no longer in business and no information is available it seems... the second is still in business but has no interest in this project, but did agree to sell me the drawing package for the total details to build the cabinets if I so wanted, the third company is also still in business, they have 28-32 of the cabinets left over from the last order, they regularly over built on orders for these cabinets, to allow for shipping damage and such ..  I know this fact to be a valid one,  in have found these cabinets over the years don't always ship well or at
>   least w/o some damage... this company is also the company that made the last production run and their cabinets featured the 'nut plate'  that floated..  this allowed the receivers to actually fit into the cabinets far better and didn't require you to have to hold your mouth just right to get the front panel screws to force fit the front panel into the cabinet,  rather it allowed a very good fit and didn't require near the effort to get the 8 front panel screws to all align...
>
> some can see where this is headed,  they are very willing to sell the 32 odd cabinets to me...  they feel sure they have this authority and will not be under any restrictions...  personally I cant see any reason either,  it is not like these cabinets ever posed any security risk or threat...
>
> from my experiences over the past 13 or so years I have hunted these cabinets down and such, the packing shipping and such is a good part of the cost, this company is not close to me..  I can buy these cabinets for 425.00 each shipped to me or 385.00 if I drive up and accept delivery...
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> I don't know what the market is,  but I will commit to buy the 32 cabinets and offer them for sale for $480.00 each... I expect to have them shipped to me,  my time and fuel cost would equate to a 4 day trip and fuel plus some small trailer rental, so it seems to make better sense for these to just be shipped to me, I can pack them and ship them for about 23.00 as I recall, that will leave me a very small profit margin but I will have the fun and once more experience of finding these and the like and I do enjoy these efforts...
>
> so this is offer #1  at 480.00 each  I will be able to provide a brand new cabinet to you, shipped to your lower 48 address, I am told the data plates are BLANK, they have no serial no. stamped into that area... the represented thinks they have 6 black cabinets and the rest are gray, in 97' I had a few black cabinets, I thought they were pretty much a pig in a sack at the time ..  I sent one to Les Locklear and a few to Chuck Ripple ..  as I find out these are pretty well sought after ..  but my point it looks like this lot might have a handful included..
>
> Offer # 2  the company willing to sell the drawing package is wanting 2500.00  for the package, they claim the cabinets can be produced by most competent shops using these drawings for about a 300.00 each price amount, painted and ready for shipping...I don't know this for fact,  they are willing to let me have the top level drawing package if I sign an agreement and promise to not do things that will try and reverse engineer these cabinets,  if I agree to this offer it will allow me to go out and try and find a local or nearby shop who can make these at I hope a lower price and not have shipping involved, this is all speculation and will require some extended time and effort on my part to see if indeed this can be done and that the quality is equal or better...  I welcome your comments and such on this idea...
>
> so we have some options here,  plan # 1 is pretty much a deal I am going to do...  if you want to buy one of these or more as I have discovered, last time one person bought 6 total... do this, make a deposit of $150.00 to my PayPal account :   libbysales at austin.rr.com   I have no problem asking for this,  my reputation is good for this,  the effort several years ago was drawn out and obstacle filled but I did deliver all but one cabinet to those that had made deposits or ordered one ..   to my knowledge everyone was pleased, it did take a bit,  but no one got too pissed or such at the length it took .. IF you decide you want to not buy or your financial situation changes I will be pleased to refund your deposit money 100% no questions asked ... that is as good as I can make it for you ..
>
> This has gone pretty long, but I know what I am offering, I know what is involved, I have a good reputation on these cabinets...
>
> thank you for the read...  mac/mc  w5mc
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